Papers, 1830-1943

White House (Washington, D.C.)

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White House, formerly Executive Mansion (1810–1902), the official office and residence of the president of the United States at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. in Washington, D.C. The White House and its landscaped grounds occupy 18 acres (7.2 hectares). Since the administration of George Washington (1789–97), who occupied presidential residences in New York and Philadelphia, every American president has resided at the White House. Originally called the “President’s Palace” on early maps, the buil...

Gray, Jane Loring, 1821-1909

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Jane Loring Gray was born in 1821. In 1847 she became engaged to Asa Gray and they were married on May 4, 1848. Jane accompanied her husband on most of his voyages and chronicled them in her letters to her family. After her husband's death in 1888 she devoted herself to memorializing him; she prepared an edition of Gray's letters and contributed funds toward the establishment of the Asa Gray Professorship. From the description of Papers of Jane Loring Gray, 183?-189? (inclusive). (Ha...

American Red Cross

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On December 2, 1905, Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen brought together a group of Brooklyn residents at the Barnard Club House on Remsen Street to form New York City's first borough-based Red Cross organization. With an initial membership roster of 300, the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross embarked on its first major campaign to aid victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, collecting over $100,000 and thousands of articles of clothing to contribute to the relief effort. From this point on, th...

Gould, Alice Bache, 1868-1953

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Alice Bache Gould, scion of a distinguished New England family, Bryn Mawr graduate, and university teacher in the field of mathematics, became a pioneer scholar of the history of early exploration in the Caribbean, and particularly of Chistopher Columbuss voyages. She pursued this work in many libraries and archives, and spent much of the last forty years of her life in Spain. The collection consists of correspondence between Alice Bache Gould and Samuel Vaughn, her trustee in Boston. The letter...

LORING FAMILY

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This collection includes papers of Jane Lathrop Loring and her nieces, Katharine Peabody Loring and Louisa Putnam Loring. JLL was born on August 27, 1821, the second child of Anna Pierce Brace and Charles Greely Loring. She married Asa Gray, the distinguished botanist and Harvard professor, on May 4, 1848; the couple resided in the Botanic Garden in Cambridge. She was a member of the Female Humane Society of Cambridge, a charitable organization for the relief of sick and indigent wo...

King Albert of Belgium

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Russian College

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Loring, Louisa Putnam, 1854-1924.

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Aiken Cottages (Aiken, S.C.).

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Loring, Katharine P., 1849-1943

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Founder and teacher in the Society to Encourage Studies at Home, Boston, Mass. From the description of Letters, 1892. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007391 ...